Mr David Hunt: ...of the effect on the landowners at Wentloog. The Government remain committed to the provision of some form of mitigation. The Welsh Office, together with Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, the Countryside Council for Wales and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, considered possible alternatives, and we announced during the Standing Committee that a feasibility study had been...
...1. Member, Development Board for Rural Wales. 2. Member, Court of Governors, St. Davids UC Lampeter. E. M. W. Griffith CBE 1. Chair, Glan Clwyd District General Hospital NHS Trust. 2. Chair, Countryside Council for Wales. 3. Member, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. R. M. Howells 1. Member, Agriculture Advisory Panel for Wales. 2. Member, Hill Farming Advisory Committee...
Mr Rhodri Morgan: ...constitutional convention that, following Second Reading, the principle of the Bill cannot be opposed. That establishes the principle, and binds the hands of the National Rivers Authority and of the Countryside Council for Wales. When the Bill is altered in another place, that constitutional principle is undermined, because it means that one is now looking at a package different from that...
David Hanson: ...of Michael Griffith who serves on a quango at present. He spends 1·5 days per month on the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales for a salary of £2,140 per year, 2·5 days per week on the Countryside Council for Wales for a salary of £29,295 and 3.5 days per week as chairman of Glan Clwyd hospital trust serving my constituency for a salary of £ 19,285 per annum. According to that,...
Mr Cynog Dafis: ...we have sites of special scientific interest management agreements, and of course we have environmentally sensitive areas. Those are administered by the Welsh Office Agricultural Department and the Countryside Council for Wales. In addition, other schemes are available in and through national parks, by local authorities, and by the Forest Authority. We thus have a plethora of schemes, some...
Mr Wyn Roberts: ...in our own interests and in our mind to devise a secure, long-term future for agriculture, involving support for the environment. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that that is why we established the Countryside Council for Wales and why we are involved in agri-environmental support. He will also be aware that the hill livestock compensatory allowance and so on exist not simply to offer...
Mr Hector Monro: ...as it was in May this year. I have said how proud we are of SSSIs, which are important to the Forestry Commission. There is great co-operation between Scottish Natural Heritage, English Nature, the Countryside Council for Wales and the Forestry Commission. All work well in harmony. It is interesting how they are developing their work together. The hon. Member for Dumbarton mentioned Loch...
John Redwood: I shall also be requiring some NDPBs to make considerable savings on consultancy fees and advertising and shall be slimming down the operations of a few. In some bodies, such as the Countryside Council for Wales, there is scope for that. I am maintaining the provision for arts and leisure in full for next year. Housing associations have seen substantial increases to their stock in recent...
Peter Hain: On a point of order, Madam Speaker. Have the Government asked for time to make a statement on Welsh national heritage? The Secretary of State for Wales is discussing with the Countryside Council for Wales proposals to privatise more than 50 nature reserves and savagely to cut wildlife protection. Those crackpot proposals are bitterly resented in Wales. Surely the Secretary of State should...
Mrs Ann Taylor: ...when there is likely to be a proper debate on that issue. Finally, instead of the flawed regulations that are down for debate on Thursday, could we have a debate on the cuts in the budget of the Countryside Council for Wales? Those cuts are serious, and there is widespread concern that the Countryside Commission will not be able to meet its obligations under the biodiversity convention or...
Mr Ron Davies: ..., because that is his defence of the policies that he operates. Last year, on legal advice, he was forced to accept, against his own previously stated wishes and instincts, the recommendation of the Countryside Council for Wales on the future of eight acres of land at Mostyn docks on the Dee estuary. In order to exact his revenge for that defeat, he decided to cut the budget of the CCW by...
Paul Beresford: ...a computerised countryside information system, which is now available as a commercial product. The Government's nature conservation advisers—English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Countryside Council for Wales—base their conservation activities on working together with landowners and occupiers, and with local communities, to preserve and enhance wildlife habitats and...
John Redwood: ...to the hon. Gentleman because that is exactly the policy that I am trying to pursue, against members of Labour's Front Bench, who seem reluctant to see any powers transferred from, for example, the Countryside Council for Wales to local government. There is an opportunity, but I will not force it down the throats of local government. I set out ideas for consultation. If local authorities...
Mr Gwilym Jones: ...for any decrease in the indigenous wildlife population and these may be interrelated. The Living Water project of the Welsh Wildlife Trust was established in 1994 and funded by, among others, the Countryside Council for Wales. It will provide valuable survey data in due course on the status of the otter, water voles and feral mink.
Mr Cynog Dafis: ...both here and abroad. I draw the attention of the House to the excellent document from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, "Wales Needs Transport, Not Traffic", and to the ideas of the Countryside Council for Wales for promoting green holidays, linking public transport with cycling and walking routes. In continental Europe, there are numerous examples of cities whose...
John Redwood: ...now extremely shy about saying that they believe in more public spending, while others—as we well know—are full of plans to spend more. Meantime, I am pleased to say that the overheads of the Countryside Council for Wales and of the Welsh Office are this year coming down by almost £2 million and £1.7 million respectively. The overheads of the Welsh Development Agency will be £1.9...
Simon Hughes: ...Minister investigate whether the code and those principles apply to his own Department, given that, on 2 March, in the debate on Welsh affairs—at column 1236—the Secretary of State said that the Countryside Council for Wales had been given perfectly adequate funds to meet its statutory requirements. The fact is, however, that the council had appealed privately to the Secretary of...
...is supplied to, a site of special scientific interest shall not be issued without the consent of the Nature Conservancy Council for England (English Nature) with respect to SSSIs in England or the Countryside Council for Wales with respect to SSSIs in Wales.'.
Mr Alex Carlile: ...removes from them the management of their own countryside? That point gathers strength when one considers the effect of the conduct of the former Secretary of State for Wales in relation to the Countryside Council for Wales.
Nicholas Soames: ...military activity within a national park. In addition, my Department has signed similar understandings with English Nature and Scottish Natural Heritage, and we will shortly be doing so with the Countryside Council for Wales. We will also continue with the policy of releasing any land that becomes surplus to defence requirements. My hon. Friend knows that conservation plays a very...
